A blockchain community FOR WOMEN

Blockchain Educational Fun Hub

About CryptoChicks

We are a non-profit blockchain educational hub with a mission to achieve gender balance in the blockchain space.

Our classes are open to everyone, but we are particularly focused on educating women because we believe that women’s involvement will help blockchain realize its enormous potential as an instrument of positive change in the world.

We hold workshops for female investors, female entrepreneurs, women involved in technology, female corporate managers, career ladies, housewives, grandmothers, and all other women. If you are curious but feel that this blockchain and cryptocurrency stuff seems scary to you, try to make it to our “Intro To Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies” class or watch this video. We make learning fun. You will not be disappointed!

Upcoming Events

We are inviting all women to use this unique opportunity to learn blockchain technology in-depth and then implement it in a project of your choice. Our sponsor BlockGeeks.com will provide all female participants with free online blockchain education.

We will be running a conference in parallel with the hackathon. We are inviting the most outstanding blockchain professionals from all over the world to speak and share their knowledge.

We are inviting all women to use this unique opportunity to learn blockchain technology in-depth and then implement it in a project of your choice. Our sponsor BlockGeeks.com will provide all female participants with free online blockchain education.

We will be running a conference in parallel with the hackathon. We are inviting the most outstanding blockchain professionals from all over the world to speak and share their knowledge.

February 13, 2018 – Hardware Wallets or The Most Secure Way to Store Your Crypto (Co-Ed)

We continue to run our events together with CryptoBayTV and film them by ThatChannel. Next is our overview of popular hardware wallets. If you choose to buy and hold cryptocurrency, do it right! At this workshop we will tell you about the safety rules to store your funds and show you the most secure way to do it.
Location: ThatChannel.com Studio. 600 Bay Street, Suite 510, Toronto, ON, M5G 1M6.
Time: 7 pm
This event is first come first serve. Please come early to get the spot. $10 fee is charged at the door.

We need your help and support

Our centre is a non for profit organization. Please help us educate more women with your donations. All donations will be appreciated and recognized. Use our contact form to inform us about your transaction details. Don’t forget to provide your name and message – we want to recognize you. Thank you for helping women and diversity in blockchain space!

CryptoChicks Team

Who We Are

Team that makes blockchain learning fun for you

Elena Sinelnikova

Founder and CEO

Software development team lead turned entrepreneur. She founded CryptoChicks.ca in July 2017 with the vision to empower and inspire women interested in learning about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. “Women are underrepresented in technology, especially in blockchain technology. I wanted to create a friendly environment where women with non-developer and developer backgrounds met other women with similar interests. I managed to inspire and involve many women who become blockchain evangelists themselves”. Elena holds a Master of Computer Science and her specialties are in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, application architecture, design and development.

Natalia Ameline

Co-Founder

Natalia is a Senior Finance Executive with multi-industry experience. Her expertise is in strategic financial planning, decision support, operations management and change management. She holds Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration as well as CPA/CMA accounting designation. She is a co-founder of CryptoChicks and is inspired by its mission – to grow the industry and its adoption by engaging women. After attending multiple crypto events, she believes that “we have this incredible opportunity to gain further insight and innovation by tapping into the immense talent of women”. Natalia was introduced to Blockchain technology in 2014 and has been passionate about the industry since.

Nataliya Hearn

Nataliya Hearn (Ph.D. Materials Engineering University of Cambridge) Professor turned serial entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Element 21 (ranked as the fastest growing company in Canada run by a woman W100 2009) that brought Scandium technology from the former Soviet Union to sports (baseball, golf, lacrosse), electronics, and aviation industries. Organized the launch of the golf drive from the International Space Station (2006).Featured in Forbes (June 2010) for developing space age material for Mount Everest team with the warmest and thinnest jackets using ZeroLoft insulation material. Designed and marketed one of the most popular professional fishing rod lines — Carrot Stix.Director of numerous public and private companies including ICOs: Chain of Points (loyalty program ICO 2017) and PNIK (asset – colour diamond – based crypto).

Olga Plokhuta

Olga is a communication and marketing specialist. Olga holds the degree in economics and business and is passionate about the tech industry in terms of analytics and innovations.Her addiction for the CryptoChicks has been developed from the first meeting with them :)

Konstantin Borovik

Konstantin spent past 2 decades building corporate IT infrastructure.He is a Bitcoin early adopter and blockchain educator. Konstantin is currently working on a blockchain project focusing on the private key security, crypt accents governance and blockchain end-user interaction experience.

Tracy Leparulo

Tracy is an early advocate for blockchain technology, and is committed to growing the crypto community through organizing game charger events. She’s the Founder of Untraceable, the first blockchain event management and marketing agency in Canada. Over the past 5 years, she has organized hundreds of iconic crypto events from the first Bitcoin Conference in Canada to the largest Ethereum hackathon in the world. As an early crypto investor Tracy has navigated through the blockchain ecosystems working on various projects from bitcoin wallets to ICOs to certified training. Tracy is committed to providing a platform for the greatest crypto minds to share knowledge, build technology, and create stronger connections within the blockchain community.

Minna Liang

Minna is a volunteering CTO at Cryptochicks . She likes to dabble in different technology and broaden her understanding in subjects like finance, economics and cognitive science to have a more wholistic view of everything. One of her first blockchain meetup that she attended was hosted by cryptochicks and was pretty intrigued by the technology prospects. Besides helping build the site, she also helps out in different roles such as marketing, designing promotional content, teaching blockchain 101 and anything she can help out to make cryptochicks events successful.

Naba Sadia Siddiqui

Naba (M.Eng. Computer Engineering University of Toronto) is a Toronto-based engineer and software developer. Her day job involves drinking lots of Java. Apart from her day job, she spends a fair amount of her time learning and working on Blockchain-based projects. Naba is committed to increasing diversity in STEM industry, specially the Blockchain space. She is also very passionate about advocating the potential of Blockchain. If she is not behind a screen writing code or designing solutions, you will find her at the gym doing Yoga or swimming.

Karla Vilhelem

Karla is a Crypto PR & Marketing Specialist passioned by social innovation.

Dedicated to delivering business growth, my journey in this space began as a marketing manager alongside Ambisafe, a leading SF Blockchain Solutions Provider. In the last year, I contributed in efficiently leveraging the benefits of token sale campaigns and helped over 10 startups reach their goals.

I like to advise new projects on the best ways to integrate the blockchain ecosystem and positively impact the upcoming disruptive solutions in the global markets.

Alison Alexis

A CPA (CA) from Vancouver, with a further degree in Classical studies, Alison considers herself a Blockchain Community maximalist.

An unrelenting curiosity to understand the past, present, and future of humanity drives her interest in science and technology. In particular, she has a strong interest in cognitive/neuro sciences, blockchain technologies, and Artificial Intelligence and their inter-play. Alison believes that diversity, a multi-disciplinary approach, and the lessons and principles learned from the past, will be crucial to the advancement of these newer technologies and thus in creating the communities, social, and economic impact we all desire.

It was the promise of Blockchain that drew her in; creating a more open world, leveling the playing field, giving people more control and freedom over their information, assets, and livelihoods, and the opportunity to take part in something that has the potential to change the world.

Our Ambassadors

People who represent CryptoChicks and carry on our mission in different parts of the World

Bob Summerwill

Vancouver, Canada

Bob Summerwill is Co-Founder and CTO for Varro Technologies, a community leader for the Ethereum Project and Community Ambassador for the Sweetbridge Project and CryptoChicks. He has been actively involved in the Ethereum project since 2015. He has been building bridges to enterprise and towards mainstream adoption since 2016. Originally from the UK, he has lived in Vancouver since 2003, and is now a dual citizen of Canada and the UK.

Irina Lebedeva

Moscow, Russia

Irina Lebedeva is a CEO of TeamKraft Sports and a dynamic entrepreneur with a diverse experience in strategy, crisis management and business development in the emerging markets. Specialties: software entrepreneurship, early stage startups, mobile apps, high-load applications.

Evgeniya Kulakova

Moscow, Russia

Evgenia graduated from the Faculty of Cybernetics of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). Has experience in management, consulting, training and software development and distance learning courses in IT and Project Management. Interested in Blockchain technology since 2016 and the development of the female cryptocommunity